History Film / Kickass2

* YourCheatingHeart: Katie wrongly suspects Dave of this with Mindy (because he has been neglecting her to spend time with Mindy and they have a public scene that looks really like a breakup). She dumps him, then claims to be having an affair with a guy who's better in bed.

* AdaptedOut: Several of the Motherfucker's most horrific actions in the second volume of the comic, such as [[spoiler:raping Katie and killing Colonel Stars' dog]]. In the film, he [[spoiler:''tries'' to rape Miranda Swendlow/Night Bitch, but he can't get an erection, and when he's actually asked by one of the Toxic Mega Cunts members if he wants to kill Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' dog, he says that he's "not ''that'' evil."]]
* AdaptationalUgliness: while not ''ugly'', ''per se'', in the comics, Remembering Tommy were a young couple in fairly revealing Medieval knight-inspired costumes. In the film they're an older couple in much less intimidating matching outfits.

* AdvertisedExtra: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars-and-Stripes only has almost 8 minutes of screentime (according to Website/IMDb) before being killed by Mother Russia. But, hey, it's Creator/JimCarrey, after all, so naturally his name is on the poster, and he is present in the majority of the promo materials.]]

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Toxic Mega Cunts trashing Justice Forever's HQ.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Motherfucker along with the Toxic Mega Cunts are defeated, and Mindy and Dave share a kiss. However, costumed heroes are now outlawed and Mindy's on the run from the police after killing six criminals who kidnapped Dave. Despite the outlaw, Dave plans to continue being Kick-Ass and is busy upgrading his costume, having accepted that superheroes can't exist in the real world "[[TheRealHeroes because the real world need real heroes.]]"]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Motherfucker along with the Toxic Mega Cunts are defeated, and Mindy and Dave share a kiss. However, costumed heroes are now outlawed and Mindy's on the run from the police after killing six criminals who kidnapped Dave.]]

!!The film provides examples of:

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Kick Ass and Night Bitch have sex in the bathroom-twice.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted. Not only is Chris D'Amico always bickering with his mom, [[spoiler:he inadvertently kills her]].

* AtlasInHisTent: Mindy, in order to keep a promise to her dad, stops fighting crime as Hit-Girl for most of the movie. [[spoiler: She comes back for the final battle.]]

* Hypocrite: Katie is furious at Dave's alleged cheating (which he wasn’t) despite the fact that she has been cheating on him for some time.

* HypocriticalHumor: A very dark example. Mother Russia asks The Motherfucker if [[spoiler:she should kill Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' dog too.]] He replies "Jesus ''Christ!'' I'm not that evil!". [[spoiler:He then orders the mortally wounded Colonel beheaded.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: The sequel is more consistent than the first installment (that had DeconReconSwitch and IndecisiveDeconstruction moments) in showing how superheroism would (not) work in a real-life setting. [[spoiler:It still ends with Dave deciding to continue as a costumed hero, though]].

* SeriesContinuityError: At the end of the first film, Mindy starts going to school as opposed to being homeschooled by her father. It's not a middle school, but Dave's high school, implying she's tested into high school at age 12. However, 3 years later in the sequel, she's in the 9th grade at age 15 when she should have been at least a senior like Dave.

* GratuitousRussian: Hit-Girl's one-liner in the final battle. She is actually saying: "You have failed, I own you from all sides," with a horrible accent.

** [[spoiler:Mother Russia injecting Hit-Girl with adrenaline, which then gives her the energy to kill Mother Russia. Though to be fair, Mother Russia thought it was poison.]]

** [[spoiler:Todd[=/=]Ass-Kicker reveals to the Motherfucker that the man who was arrested for being Kick-Ass was actually Dave's father. Despite being remorseful, he doesn't get any comeuppance from Dave or any of the other Justice Forever members.]] Somewhat subverted in that [[spoiler:Todd doesn't seem to realize just how evil the villains are and he probably did not even figure out what they did to Dave's father. Once he realizes how evil they are, he quickly switches sides.]]
** Ralph D'Amico never gets punished for [[spoiler:making the Motherfucker go AxeCrazy]] or for [[spoiler:ordering one of his thugs to kill Javier]]. To be fair, though, if the comic version is anything to go by, Chris' antics and the resulting attention no doubt caused plenty of problems for Ralph and his organization.

The 2013 sequel to ''Film/KickAss'', the sequel adapts the second volume of [[Comicbook/KickAss the comic book]] and the ''Hit-Girl'' interquel.

It's three years after Dave Lizewski (Creator/AaronJohnson) hung up his tights as Kick-Ass, and 15-year old Mindy [=McCready=] (Creator/ChloeMoretz) is starting highschool at Dave's school...in theory. In reality, whilst Mindy's guardian is trying to give her a normal life, she's skipping school every day to train and fight criminals as Hit-Girl. Dave, bored with his life after retiring from superheroics, begs her to take him on as a sidekick. After Dave gets back in the tights, he soon learns that he and Hit-Girl are no longer the only costumed vigilantes in New York, and joins Justice Forever, a group of like minded individuals led by Colonel Stars and Stripes (Creator/JimCarrey).

* AdaptedOut: Several of the Motherfucker's most horrific actions in the second volume of the comic, such as [[spoiler:raping Katie and killing Colonel Stars' dog]]. In the film, he [[spoiler:''tries'' to rape Miranda Swendlow/Night Bitch, but he can't get an erection, and when he's actually asked by one of the Toxic Mega Cunts members if he wants to kill Colonel Stars and Stripes' dog, he says that he's "not ''that'' evil."]]

* AdaptationNameChange: Colonel Stars and Stripes' dog is named Eisenhower, as opposed to Sophia in the comic, with an extended scene has the Colonel explain that Eisenhower is her hero name and that Sofia is her secret identity. Furthermore, Colonel Stars and Stripes was simply Colonel Stars in the comic, whilst he had a brother named Lieutenant Stripes.
* AdvertisedExtra: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars and Stripes only has almost 8 minutes of screentime (according to IMDB) before being killed by Mother Russia. But, hey, it's Creator/JimCarrey, after all, so naturally his name is on the poster, and he is present in the majority of the promo materials.]]

** Dave also CantStayNormal, and gives up his happy, safe and boring life with Katie to train with Mindy. And he nearly gets killed because of her training, while Katie leaves him.[[spoiler:When his father finds out, his dad says he was hoping it was drugs, and then later claims to be Kickass when the police come.]]

* AllAmericanFace[=/=]CaptainPatriotic:
** Col. Stars and Stripes and Battle Guy are parodies of the archetype. The costume of the latter is almost entirely a cheap ComicBook/CaptainAmerica knockoff, complete with a shield.
** Eisenhower, Col. Stars and Stripes' dog, wearing a mask with the US flag.
** Mother Russia is also a CaptainPatriotic of sorts, judging by her supervillain name and the Soviet hammer-and-sickle emblem on her bra and eyepatch. Helps that she was a former member of the KGB.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Averted. The Motherfucker specifically refuses to kill Col. Stars and Stripes' dog, saying he was "not ''that'' evil." In the comics, he actually ''did'' have the dog killed.

* BattleCouple

** [[spoiler: Dave and Mindy seem to have formed one by the end of the film]].* BigBadWannabe: Uncle D'Amico tries to invoke this to get the Motherfucker to lay low. He's in prison, but the warden's a friend, and he pretty effortlessly has [[spoiler:Javier]]'s throat slit. [[KickTheDog While it plays over the phone.]] Still, it only seems to [[LetsGetDangerous harden his resolve.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Motherfucker along with the Toxic Mega Cunts are defeated, and Mindy and Dave share a kiss. However, costumed heroes are now outlawed and Mindy's on the run from the police after killing six criminals who kidnapped Dave.]]
* BlackComedyRape: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to rape [[spoiler: Night Bitch]], but since he can't get an erection, he turns around to play with himself to try and get one, but fails.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted quite awesomely. The most prominent superhero of color, Doctor Gravity, survives the length of the film (how much longer than that depends on if he can control his AxCrazy AscendedFanboy tendencies.) Big Daddy's ex-partner Marcus also escapes death, [[spoiler: but for aiding and abetting Hit-Girl, he will likely go to prison.]] In the context of [[spoiler: the final battle, Black Death being Hit-Girl's first fatality arguably counts.]]

* BulletTime: [[spoiler: Hit Girl after being injected with adrenaline during her fight with Mother Russia.]]

* CallBack: The following exchange between Dave and Marty, when Marty finds out Dave is Kick-Ass, is pretty much word for word with one that happens between Dave and Katie when she finds out he's Kick-Ass.
--> '''Marty:''' Dave, Why are you dressed as Kick-Ass?\\

* ChekhovsLecture: Colonel Stars-And-Stripes teaches his fellow heroes to use open-palm strikes when aiming for the face, as a closed fist is likely to result in self-injury. [[spoiler:When he forgets this against Mother Russia, she is unharmed and he recoils in pain. Of course, this being Mother Russia, he could have done it the right way and probably wouldn't have fared any better.]]

** Any time Mother Russia gets her hands dirty in the film, including single handedly taking out a squad of ten cops [[spoiler:and wiping the floor with Hit-Girl. Hit-Girl is forced to trick her into injecting her with adrenaline to get the upper hand and then Mother Russia winds up receiving a curbstomping of her own]].
* DarkMessiah: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to invoke this with mixed results. He calls himself an "evil Jesus" before he [[spoiler: falls off the roof, and about midway through the fall he realizes his mistake, and falls into a shark tank, where his pet shark bites off his legs and penis.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: When he is about to rape [[spoiler:Night Bitch]], The Motherfucker realizes he can't get a hard-on, so he tries to remedy this problem manually.

* DavidVersusGoliath: Hit-Girl vs. the enormous Mother Russia. [[spoiler: Hit-Girl wins.]]
* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler: Jim Carrey, as Colonel Stars-and-Stripes is KilledOffForReal in the middle of the film.]]

* DistractedByTheSexy: Hit-Girl, a total of three times. The first time is when [[spoiler: Dave starts changing into pimp clothing]] early in the film, the second time is when she's shown a [[ProductPlacement Union J music video]], and the third time is when [[spoiler: [[ShirtlessScene Dave takes his shirt off]] right before the climax]].

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: The "last resort" adrenaline shot is this for Hit Girl, allowing her to completely turn the tables on Mother Russia.]]

-->'''Motherfucker''': Jesus ''Christ'', I'm not that evil!
* EvilDetectingDog: Eisenhower figures out [[spoiler:the Toxic Mega Cunts are ambushing Colonel Stars and Stripes]] before the man himself does. [[spoiler:It doesn't help.]]

* EvilIsPetty: Oh so very much.

* FedToTheBeast: This is Motherfucker's plan for Kick-Ass, to feed him to an imported shark. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma It happens to him instead]].]]

* GratuitousRussian: Hit-Girl's one-liner in the final battle. She is actually saying: "You have failed, I own you from all sides", with a horrible accent.
* GroinAttack: Eisenhower, Col. Stars and Stripes' dog, is specifically trained to attack men's lower parts.

* HypocriticalHumor: A very dark example. Mother Russia asks The Motherfucker if [[spoiler:she should kill Colonel Stars and Stripes' dog too.]] He replies "Jesus ''Christ!'' I'm not that evil!". [[spoiler:He then orders the mortally wounded Colonel beheaded.]]

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hit Girl tries this for most of the movie, but realises that fighting evil is a responsibility she can't ignore.

** Hit-Girl manages to kill [[spoiler: Mother Russia]] with [[spoiler: shards of glass.]]

* JumpScare: A more comical one, but after Colonel Stars and Stripes' crew beat up and restrain members of the prostitution ring, the last guy tries to run for it, only for the Colonel himself to leap from off screen and tackle him down.
* JustDesserts: [[spoiler: Motherfucker gets eaten by his own shark at the end.]]
* JuxtapositionGag: In a serious moment, showing Hit Girl in uniform on a pink bed in a very girly room.

** [[spoiler:Todd[=/=]Ass-Kicker reveals to the Motherfucker that the man who was arrested for being Kick-Ass was actually Dave's father. Despite being remorseful, he doesn't get any comeuppance from Dave or any of the other Justice Forever members.]] Somewhat subverted in that [[spoiler:Todd doesn't seem to realise just how evil the villains are and he probably did not even figure out what they did to Dave's father. Once he realises how evil they are, he quickly switches sides.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars and Stripes, played by Creator/JimCarrey. Bet you didn't see that coming, unless of course, you've read the comic book, in which case it is a ForegoneConclusion.]]

* LighterAndSofter: A rather odd example in two cases
** 1: The film is much more toned down from the comics as both the filmmakers and even Chris D'Amico's actor were opposed to doing a straight adaptation. Case in point, the comic features [[spoiler:Motherfucker raping Katie, shooting several children, killing Colonel Stars and Stripes' dog and ''placing the head on the Colonel's corpse'', and outright bombing every comic book shop in New York]], none of which occurs in the film. The ending alone sees [[spoiler:Kick-Ass, Battle Guy and Ass-Kicker wanted and Hit-Girl arrested for being vigilantes, with Marcus being arrested for knowingly sheltering a vigilante; and Motherfucker thrown from a building and in a broken mess in an alley]] as opposed to the film [[spoiler:having Kick-Ass resolving to become the hero New York needs, Hit-Girl kissing Dave then leaving New York to avoid being sent to prison, and Motherfucker being comically eaten by his shark]].
** 2: It cuts back on the swears and violence of the first movie as well. There's less emphasis on gore and scenes of murder are mercifully cut short. Though there is a certain gross out scene you should watch out for if your squeamish.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars and Stripes.]]

* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Mother Russia herself's the most formidable of D'Amico's henchmen, and kills cops to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic a rock remix of the]] ''Videogame/{{Tetris}}'' [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme.]]

** A few, with the most notable being Kick-Ass' costume for the final fight (armoured with Big Daddy's armour) looking almost identical to the costume of hero Silver Beetle from ''Hit-Girl.''
** Another one from ''Hit-Girl'': in the midquel, Hit-Girl dismisses Night Bitch as a serious superhero because her costume shows too much skin, and dismisses the superhero Tarantula for publishing his own secret identity on Facebook. Here, Night Bitch is Hit-Girl's rival in love (and Hit-Girl wondered if hers was a superhero codename or the title of a porn movie), and [[spoiler: the Toxic Mega Cunts visit her at home, attempt to rape her and beat her to a pulp due her bright idea of saying on her personal Facebook page she was in a relationship with Kick-Ass, thus allowing The Motherfucker to confirm her superhero identity]].

** Also, [[spoiler: Uncle Ralph forcing Chris to listen as Javier is murdered.]] His (eerily calm) response? "Thank you for that. I needed that to get through what comes next."
** The Motherfucker attacking Dave at his dad's funeral. Dave at that point wanted to quit being Kick Ass. [[spoiler: This not only got him back, but brought Hit Girl back too.]]

* NotHyperbole: Hit-Girl claims to be able to kill a man with his own finger. During the final fight, she shows she wasn't kidding. She also says she'll cut off a mook's hand if he breaks his promise to give up crime; she wasn't kidding on that one either. Later she says she'll feed a guy his own dick [[RuleOfThree and we never see him again afterwards]].

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Mother Russia does this to Colonel Stars and Stripes with a machete, who had already been fatally wounded by her.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: It's hard to really empathize with Marcus' desire to see Mindy lead a normal life when you realize just how useless the police are. They're either completely corrupted or just [[IdiotBall plain incompetent]]. By taking Hit-Girl off the streets, he's indirectly responsible for several deaths. In fairness to the police, they are more used to average criminals than the antics of those who have styled themselves as supervillains, and on their part do put up what seems to be a pretty even fight with [[spoiler: The Motherfucker's goons at Dave's dad's funeral]] only armed with Glock 17s, while [[spoiler: The Motherfucker's goons]] use fully-automatic AK-47s and [[spoiler: Genghis Carnage]] uses a Penn Arms PGL-65. When Dave sends a message to "all superheroes in the city" giving the address of the villains' lair the police fail to notice. The only time they get completely [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] is when they fight against [[HuskyRusskie Mother Russia]], a former member of the KGB who is an even better fighter than Hit-Girl.

** Dr Gravity orders a diet Mountain Dew and racks of different flavors of Dew can be seen in the cooler when The Motherfucker robs a convenience store.

* RealMenLoveJesus: The badass Col. Stars and Stripes is a born-again Christian.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl.]] [[MaybeEverAfter Maybe.]] It's left rather vague.
* ReligiousBruiser: Captain Stars and Stripes is a former Mafia enforcer who became a born-again Christian and superhero. He now goes after the kind of people he once worked for.

** [[spoiler:Colonel Stars-And-Stripes.]] Also, perhaps, [[spoiler:Dave's dad.]]

* SaveTheVillain: Kick-Ass tries to save [[spoiler:Motherfucker]] from falling through a glass roof. [[spoiler:He swats away his hand, to die a martyr, and plummets to his...shark tank. Then he finds out the shark's very much alive.]]

* ShipTease: The entire movie is this [[spoiler: for Mindy and Dave. But with Mindy being forced to leave the city at the end after kissing Dave, their future status is unknown.]]
* ShoutOut: The [[Film/MinorityReport "sick stick".]]
* SoftWater: The Motherfucker survives a fall from a warehouse roof by landing in a water tank. [[spoiler:The shark in the tank, however, was hungry.]]

** [[spoiler:Eisenhower, Colonel Stars and Stripes' dog.]]

* StopOrIWillShoot: Subverted. Colonel Stars and Stripes holds [[spoiler: Mother Russia]] at gunpoint with his unloaded Smith & Wesson 5946 when [[spoiler: The Toxic Mega Cunts ambush the Colonel while he's at the Justice Forever HQ. However, Mother Russia manages to take his gun away and tries to shoot him with it. She discovers that [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets the gun is empty]],[[note]]The Colonel never carried it loaded, for safety reasons[[/note]] so she stabs him from behind with her machete before [[NeckSnap snapping his neck]] and [[OffWithHisHead decapitating him]].]]

** The Motherfucker's refusal to kill Col. Stars and Stripes' dog in the movie version (whereas he did in the comic series) is another jab at what's perceived as Mark Miller's tendency to use needless cruelty in his comics solely for the sake of shock value.
* TakingUpTheMantle: In the last battle, Kick-Ass wears the body armor from [[spoiler:Big Daddy's suit and in the end he also inherits Hit Girl's base including its arsenal]].
* TimeSkip: Mindy and Dave are now 15 and 18 (nearly 19) respectively - due to Creator/ChloeMoretz' [[{{Understatement}} obvious aging]] between films.

* ThisIsReality: It's a recurring theme throughout the movie. Dave's father tells him that "this is the real world" and there are real consequences and responsibilities to being a costumed vigilante. Before the final fight, Mindy tells Dave that "this is not a comic book," which Dave echoes to The Motherfucker [[spoiler: when he is dangling over a pit, trying to slip out of Dave's hand and kill himself]].

* WorfEffect: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars and Stripes is killed by Mother Russia. Later on, Mother Russia nearly kills Hit-Girl until she can get an adrenaline shot.]]

** [[spoiler: Dave and Mindy seem to have formed one by the end of the film]].

* BigBadWannabe: Uncle D'Amico tries to invoke this to get the Motherfucker to lay low. He's in prison, but the warden's a friend, and he pretty effortlessly has [[spoiler:Javier]]'s throat slit. [[KickTheDog While it plays over the phone.]] Still, it only seems to [[LetsGetDangerous harden his resolve.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** Brooke is nice to Mindy until she regards Mindy as a threat.
** Katie is also retroactively revealed to be one, as she reveals she was cheating on Dave all along before breaking up with him over a misunderstanding, without giving him any chance to explain.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Motherfucker along with the Toxic Mega Cunts are defeated, and Mindy and Dave share a kiss. However, costumed heroes are now outlawed and Mindy's on the run from the police after killing six criminals who kidnapped Dave.]]
* BlackComedyRape: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to rape [[spoiler: Night Bitch]], but since he can't get an erection, he turns around to play with himself to try and get one, but fails.

* SparedByAdaptation:

** [[spoiler:Katie's parents, who died in the same scene as the Motherfucker's AdaptedOut raping of Katie.]]

* TooDumbToLive: The leader of the muggers, after he and his group receive a major ass kicking from Hit-Girl, she offers to let him go if he promises to no longer mug people otherwise she'd "go Saudi Arabia on your ass" and cut off one of his hands. He seemingly swears to, until he goes for his knife, in which his hand is then swiftly severed.

* SeriesContinuityError: At the end of the first film, Mindy starts going to School as opposed to being homeschooled by her father. It's not a middle school, but Dave's high school, implying she's tested into high school. However, 3 years later in the sequel, she's in the 9th grade when she should be at least a senior like Dave.

* NotHyperbole: Hit-Girl claims to be able to kill a man with his own finger. During the final fight, she shows she wasn't kidding. She also says she'll cut of a mook's hand if he breaks his promise to give up crime; she wasn't kidding on that one either. Later she says she'll feed a guy his own dick [[RuleOfThree and we never see him again afterwards]].

* PoliceAreUseless: It's hard to really empathise with Marcus' desire to see Mindy lead a normal life when you realise just how useless the police are. They're either completely corrupted or just [[IdiotBall plain incompetent]]. By taking Hit-Girl off the streets, he's indirectly responsible for several deaths. In fairness to the police, they are more used to average criminals than the antics of those who have styled themselves as supervillains, and on their part do put up what seems to be a pretty even fight with [[spoiler: The Motherfucker's goons at Dave's dad's funeral]] only armed with Glock 17s, while [[spoiler: The Motherfucker's goons]] use fully-automatic AK-47s and [[spoiler: Genghis Carnage]] uses a Penn Arms PGL-65. When Dave sends a message to "all superheroes in the city" giving the address of the villains' lair the police fail to notice. The only time they get completely [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] is when they fight against [[HuskyRusskie Mother Russia]], a former member of the KGB who is an even better fighter than Hit-Girl.

** Midway through the film, Mindy is forced to watch a large portion of Union J's music video, a British boyband who had yet to release their debut album and were only known for coming from [[Series/TheXFactor the same TV show as]] Music/OneDirection.

* DarkMessiah: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to invoke this with mixed results. He calls himself an "evil Jesus" before he [[spoiler: falls off the roof, and about midway through the fall he realizes his mistake, and falls into a shark tank, where his pet shark kills him.]]

* DesignatedGirlFight: Downplayed and justified. Both Hit-Girl and Mother Russia are shown fighting, and severely wounding/killing several male mooks early in the movie. When it comes to the climax, they face off against each other, who are clearly the most competent fighters on either side.

* DarkMessiah: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to invoke this with mixed results. He calls himself an "evil Jesus" before he [[spoiler: falls off the roof, and about midway through the fall he realizes his mistake, and falls into a shark tank, where his pet shark bites off his legs and penis.]]

* CaliforniaDoubling:
** The early fight, with Kick-Ass and Doctor Gravity, is supposed to take place in New York, but shop signs such as Mr. Sub and Telus Mobile says that this is a Canadian corner, most likely in Toronto.
** The fight scene between Mother Russia and the cops takes place in a suburban residential area most likely in Mississauga.